The happy little days of the Ye family

After selling vegetables in the morning, the grocery store has always been deserted.

After Wang Chunyu returned, Ye Donglin was guarding the grocery store alone, which was really boring.

Seeing that there was no business at the grocery store, I simply picked up a book.

Ye Donglin was on the bookshelf and took out a travel book that had been rented by many people recently.

Ye Donglin read this travelogue some time ago. It was very well written and described the customs and customs of the north.

The goose-feather heavy snow, snowball fights with friends, and open-air frozen dumplings are all unheard of in the south, so they are very popular.

The climate here is hot and it never snows in winter. Ye Donglin looked at the descriptions in the storybook and wanted to go north to see what the heavy snow in the sky was like.

The book says that the winter in the north is extremely cold, and people burn kangs and fire walls to keep out the cold.

Ye Donglin has also carefully studied the descriptions of these two things, but he has never seen the actual objects and has not studied them until now.

This book has been read by so many people that the outer cover has become tattered and the inside has been turned over and has burrs.

This book is quite popular, and Ye Donglin plans to copy a few more copies and sell them. In addition to the grocery store, you can also take it to Father Ye’s small stall to sell it.

At this time, Ye Donglin was the only one in the grocery store, and it was very quiet.

After preparing the paper and ink, Ye Donglin calmed down and started copying the script.

Anyway, he has nothing to do, and the money he saves from copying books can be considered as his income today.

Ye Donglin was concentrating on copying books, but before he knew it, the smell of food came from the alley.

"Grrrrrr!"

Ye Donglin touched his flat stomach and felt a little hungry.

When business was good two years ago, Ye Donglin was so prosperous that he even asked the children in the alley to buy lunch with candy.

Business is not good now, so we can only save money when we can.

After closing the door, Ye Donglin went to the noodle shop in the alley to eat a bowl of cheap and affordable egg noodles.

The couple in the noodle shop fled from the north. Ye Donglin asked a lot about the north based on the descriptions in the storybook.

Ye Donglin arrived late and there were not many people in the noodle shop. The owner of the noodle shop sat down and chatted with him for a long time.

This conversation made Ye Donglin yearn for the north more.

After returning from eating, Ye Donglin continued to copy the script on the counter.

The grocery store was very deserted in the afternoon, with only one or two people coming to buy things occasionally. Ye Donglin spent the entire afternoon copying books.

There are not many words in the travel notes. It took about two hours to copy them into one book.

The Liang brothers come here to copy books on weekdays, and they are paid 15 yuan a book.

Although there was no business in the afternoon, Ye Donglin copied the book by himself and saved 15 cents, which can be regarded as increasing the income of the grocery store.

The storybook had just been copied and the ink hadn't dried yet. Ye Donglin took them to the small resting room inside and spread it out to dry.

As soon as I came out of the small room, I saw Bai Yaowen from Baijia Restaurant next door coming over.

Bai's Restaurant has been open for a while, and the business is not very good, but it's not bad.

Bai Yaowen is the chef of a small restaurant and also serves as the shopkeeper.

In addition, he also transferred a capable waiter from his own Baijia Restaurant to help serve food and collect money.

Although the Bai family restaurant is small, it is well-equipped and the business is pretty good. It can be regarded as a big customer of the grocery store.

"Brother Bai."

As soon as Ye Donglin saw him, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face and enthusiastically handed him the most expensive pastry.

Bai Yaowen was not polite, took the crystal osmanthus cake and started eating it.

"There is not much food and seasoning at the restaurant. Bring me 30 kilograms of polished rice, 30 kilograms of brown rice, and 25 kilograms each of cornmeal and sweet potatoes."

"okay!"

Ye Donglin quickly packed the food that Bai Yaowen asked for.

Then Bai Yaowen picked out some seasonings that were lacking in the restaurant, as well as cheap wine.

Seeing that there were cheap wild tea leaves in the shop, I grabbed half a catty.

This tea was picked by Mr. Ye from the mountains and fried by Ye Mu at will.

Although it seems to be in average condition, it is sold cheaply and there are still quite a lot of people buying it.

Bai Yaowen asked for less than half this time, but Ye Donglin also knew that the business of Bai's restaurant was not very good recently.

"Alas, half the number of people coming to eat after the new year will be reduced, so business will be difficult." Bai Yaowen sighed.

"It will be like this after the new year. It will get better after a while."

Ye Donglin said lightly, not sure whether it was to comfort Bai Yaowen or to comfort himself.

After picking out the items, Bai Yaowen ordered two large grass carp, five bundles of Chinese toon and ten bundles of wild vegetables from Ye Donglin.

Bai Yaowen bought a lot of things, and Ye Donglin helped him move the things to the restaurant.

When I returned to the grocery store, I saw brothers Liang Youcai and Liang Youwei already waiting at the counter.

This year, one of the two brothers will take the exam to be a scholar, and the other will take the exam to be a child student.

So every day after school, the master from the academy would tutor the two of them for a while, so the time for coming over to copy books every day was also postponed.

Ye Donglin picked two shabby books on the bookshelf, and then led the two of them into the small room where they rested.

Neither humble nor arrogant, they took the book and started grinding.

Going to take the exam requires a lot of money, and the brothers want to seize the time to copy more books so that they can save up enough for travel expenses as soon as possible.

Ye Donglin is also a father himself, and he actually feels very sorry for these two children, and he usually takes good care of the two brothers.

Before Ye Donglin left, he took out the script he had copied in the afternoon.

At this time, another group of familiar young people came to the grocery store.

The grocery store's business has been slow recently, but thanks to these teenagers, they come here every day, rain or shine, to rent books or buy things for reading.

A group of young teenagers in their prime were chattering all kinds of interesting things in the shop. Ye Donglin felt that he was several years younger.

The sky was getting darker little by little, and the chattering little boys in the grocery store also left one by one.

Ye Donglin stood up and arranged everything in the shop one by one.

At this time, there was still one-third of the pastries on the shelf, and one and a half of the roast duck and chicken that were brought in the morning were left.

The grocery stores are all businesses nearby, and the food is usually freshly prepared that day, rarely overnight.

Ye Donglin packed up all the leftover food and prepared to take it back to his home to eat.

Seeing that the sky outside had darkened, Ye Donglin saw that the brothers were still lowering their heads and working hard to copy books.

Knowing that the two were collecting travel expenses for the scientific examination, Ye Donglin couldn't bear to disturb them and silently returned to the counter to count today's income.

Except for shopkeeper Bai, it was basically all scattered income, and the counter was full of copper plates.

Ye Donglin counted for a long time before taking stock. Today's approximate profit is about 200 yuan.

And half of the profits are still due to the big customer Bai Shopkeeper.

Ye Donglin also put today's income into a small box, and he took all the money home directly.

After waiting for a while, the brothers finally came out with the copied books.

The two brothers have been copying books at the grocery store for a while, and now the handwriting is getting better and better.

Ye Donglin feels that the two brothers are both real and flexible, and they will have a bright future and will definitely make a difference.

In addition to wages, the brothers were also given a large bag of pastries.

"Business at the grocery store has been slow lately, and there are a lot of pastries left. It's not easy to sell these snacks overnight. You can take them back and eat them."

Liang Youcai didn't want it at first, but when he saw his younger brother staring at the cakes, he couldn't bear to let him down, so he blushed and thanked Ye Donglin.

"Thank you, Uncle Ye."

"Thank you, Uncle Ye."

Ye Donglin knew that they were about to take the scientific examination, so he asked them to pick some books on the bookshelf and go back to read.

Anyway, these books are not bad if you read them, and Ye Donglin is happy to do this smooth favor.